Lorraine |
Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The difference between the gay marriage movement and adoptee rights
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Gays have political clout; bastards don’t. Lessons from New Jersey and New York.
Jane |
Last week New Jersey’s Governor, Chris Christie, sank a bill which would have allowed adoptees to access to their original birth certificates. The New York legislature tabled a similar bill after New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent a lobbyist to Albany to oppose it. Meanwhile the New York legislature passed a bill to allow single sex couples to marry, a measure which would have been unheard of a few years ago.
What Does Christie's veto really mean?
Lorraine, when smiling |
Saturday, June 25, 2011
CHRISTIE Vetoes Adoptee Rights in New Jersey and other legislative news
Lorraine |
"The decision of any biological parent to seek adoptive parents for a child is an enormously complicated choice. The emotional struggle preceding any adoption is unlike any other step facing a parent, with ramifications for the mother, father and child that will endure throughout their lives."
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Jessica Lost: The meaning of motherhood when adoption steps in
While my hand is still incredibly weak, and typing anything is laborious, I asked Linda, a first mother who used to blog regularly at First Mother Forum, to review a new first/birth mother memoir, (Jessica Lost: A Story of Birth, Adoption & The Meaning of Motherhood). See sidebar for news re legislation in New York and Rhode Island--and of course, New Jersey. --lorraine
Linda's review:
Since my five-year, on and off roller coaster reunion ended six years ago, I moved on without my daughter—again—
Sunday, June 19, 2011
First Fathers Matter
Jane |
It’s easy to understand why first fathers think they don’t matter to their children. The fact is that they do matter in spite of efforts by law makers to obliterate them. Many states prohibit vital statistics registrars from including the names of unmarried fathers on birth certificates unless both parents file affidavits of paternity, something they are likely unaware of.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Jennifer Lauck's "Found" reveals the painful truth of adoption
Jane |
As she hears Catherine’s voice, Lauck feels "a rise of love so pure and utterly familiar. It is the same feeling I have for my children, which began sprouting the moment I knew I was pregnant with them.…I know I have been waiting--for my true mother, for Catherine—in order to finally release this universal love in the other direction. Love has always been in my heart waiting for the right person to trip the code.”
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Want to "star" in reality TV? Sign up to give your baby up
Lorraine |
Decry the adoption culture all day long, but from the Adoption Option (see sidebar) to a casual comment the other evening about adopting a child instead of raising a chimp in one's home (who later goes berserk and chews up a neighbor's face), it's with us everywhere. Today's New York Times has a story about gay adoption and how it is on the rise. That story featured Matt and Ray Lees of Worthington, Ohio, who adopted eight
Monday, June 13, 2011
Cultivating a Culture of Adoption
Jane |
“Adoption is the natural result of our redemption.” I came across these words when I Googled “Culture of Adoption” looking for follow-up materials to my article “Does Adoption Run in Families?. The words came from an article by Carolyn Curtis, “Cultivating a Culture of Adoption”* in the Presbyterian Church in America’s web magazine.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Does adoption run in families?
Jane |
Are adoptees more likely than other mothers to surrender their children for adoption? In 1966, a new social worker at the Florence Crittenton Home in San Francisco told me that many of the pregnant girls at Crittenton were adoptees, hinting that perhaps adoption was not the panacea for unwed pregnancy that it was made out to be. However, she added, other workers assured her there was no correlation between being adopted and subsequently giving up a child; it only seemed that way.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Demand for babies leads to adoption abuses
It is the rare adoptive parent who, after adopting from overseas, can wrap her mind around the idea that "her" baby might have been stolen, sold or bartered to fill the huge demand for adoptable infants in wealthy nations, of which she herself was a part.
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